On Fri, 2022-11-25 at 15:20 +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
What about calling it x86-64-v1? Sure, this name will cover the i586 part implicitly only, but would leave room for a x86-64-v3 tree and following.
Or even more radical:
Create -v1, -v2 and v3 trees, make Factory a link to x86-64-v2 and in five years, switch it to -v3. Ideally, these trees share all noarch packages.
I'm sure, you get the idea.
I get the idea, but as the ports are independent, they can by no means share noarch packages between them. They won't even forcibly have the same release cadance (i.e. openSUSE Tumbleweed might publish a release, but the legacyx86 port might not, because something is utterly broken) And openSUSE:Factory being a 'link' to anything sounds very backwards - Factory is the leading project. The only one I care for (bluntly spoken) All the ports are up to the larger community and interested parties to be maintained. So if Factory moves to v3, and somebody really cares to maintain a v2 port at that time, we'll have to tripple efforts (or hopefully give up on v1 by then) Cheers, Dominique